2025.08.15 Trump and Putin

The meeting between US President Trump and Russian President Putin, which took place on August 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, was a very important historical moment, not so much for the results, but for understanding the failure, injustice, inequity, manipulation, lack of logic, common sense, mutual respect, and in many cases the cruelty, of all systems, with the exception of DirectDemocracy, which is innovative and an alternative to all the others, but above all, different and better.

But first, we want to reveal our position regarding the vile and senseless Russian invasion of Ukraine, with a very brief preface.

For us at DirectDemocracyS, foreign policy is a serious matter, and we are not unrealistic, visionary, or even optimistic. We know full well that without determination, courage, consistency, long and hard work, and above all, without the direct commitment of every citizen of the world, they will continue to mock us, exploit us, deceive us, manipulate us, and control us, exactly as they have done until now, since time immemorial.

First, we must all immediately change and improve our mentality and approach to these important issues. This is the most difficult part of our peaceful, yet very tough, drastic, and in many ways revolutionary, effort to change and improve our world, which belongs to everyone, whether they are inside or outside our system.

After learning to think logically, with common sense, respecting everyone else, everything will become simpler, faster, safer, and more definitive.

But let's go back to the summit between Putin and Trump.

The divisive system, which exploits all weak minds, including ours, has split into Trump supporters, who said their darling had a brilliant idea to try to solve the problems by meeting directly with the Russian dictator, and those who can't stand Trump, who found even the red carpet at the airport out of place (not knowing, or worse, not wanting to remember, that it's a consolidated practice, which can't be changed based on the interlocutor), but above all the applause, which the American president has given the Russian president several times (again, anyone familiar with the habits of the American people, and especially Trump's way of gesticulating, would know that this is completely normal).

Putin's few supporters, on the other hand, declare that their darling has received worldwide recognition (which certainly cannot be denied), and that he will certainly continue with his activities and his behavior, while those who cannot stand him will say that he continues to be a criminal, convicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

DirectDemocracyS has always had a clear, consistent, and even courageous position on everything it has analyzed, including the situation in Ukraine.

Until they took Crimea in 2014, with absolute indifference (except for a few official, convenient protests), the Russians had some undeniable reasons:

• In Ukraine, corruption at all levels is unimaginable (but this does not justify the invasion, military actions, and occupation of territories).
• The Russian population, and other minorities, have not had sufficient rights and just autonomy in Ukraine (but this does not justify the invasion, military actions, and occupation of territories).
• The trend of changing, forcing the resignation of, or influencing various governments—not through votes, but through street actions, even violent ones—is never a solution. It would have been enough to found DirectDemocracyS, and change and improve everything, based on the needs, and for the good, of the entire population, protecting minorities, with our unique and inimitable system.

So, in short, Russian policy, until it illegally occupied Crimea, had some undeniable reasons.

Some Russian claims (fortunately not all Russians, but only nationalist politicians close to Putin), however, are completely unjustified by anyone with even two functioning brain cells. Let's see what we at DirectDemocracyS find inconceivable in justifying Russia's invasion of Ukraine:

First of all, Ukraine's accession to the European Union, and especially to NATO, does not justify any invasion for us. We are not fools; we are aware of all the geopolitical, and especially military, implications that a continued NATO expansion, which practically encircles Russia, can entail. But we are also people who consider the facts, the truth, and the consequences of every decision. The Russian invasion of Ukraine merely convinced other countries in Russia's neighborhood, previously neutral, to join NATO wholeheartedly, since they could not rely on any guarantees from Russian policymakers, close to Putin, who did not hesitate to dismiss the 1991 Budapest Memorandum as "toilet paper."

We repeat it, and we want it to be clear to everyone forever: for DirectDemocracyS, before the interests of individuals, of a few groups, of any single country, or of any single people, come the interests and good of the entire world population, without any preference, without any distinction, and without any discrimination.

In short, every people, and every single country, must have the same freedom, the same democracy, the same dignity, which also includes the right to decide by whom and how to be represented, and to freely choose at any time which economic market or military alliance to join, without any kind of influence or threat, but above all without the need for any approval from other peoples and countries. We explain this to you concretely: for us, there are no dominant peoples and countries, and no dominated peoples and countries are second-class or first-class, and no one cannot decide for others. At this point, many will tell us that we live in a dream world, but don't forget that we always transform promises into concrete facts. Therefore, we have all the skills and capabilities to work this "magic," that is, to create a fair, meritocratic, just, loyal, logical, diverse, better, and safe world, in which we can all live together in peace and harmony.

Russia's security interests would be better served if Russian policy were reliable, consistent, and respected all treaties, memoranda, and promises made. If it continues to invade and bomb, everyone around it will find itself truly isolated internationally. The proof of our point: nuclear weapons. From a peak of 65,000 active nuclear warheads in 1985, we have gone from a total of approximately 12,241 nuclear warheads in 2025, of which 3,912 are operational and the rest in reserve; the distinction between "operational" and "reserve" warheads is very subtle, given that the latter can be brought to operational levels in a matter of days or weeks.

Let's see how these weapons of mass destruction are distributed.

Current situation:

Russia: Russia is estimated to possess approximately 5,459 nuclear warheads.

United States: The United States has approximately 5,177 of them.

Other countries: Other countries with nuclear weapons include China, France, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea.

To those who tell us that Russia has geopolitical and military reasons, we say that no one is stupid, and no country, or military alliance, would attack a country that possesses nuclear weapons, especially if it possesses half of those currently in existence.

President Putin's decision to attack Ukraine has certainly increased arms production and trade, and will have serious consequences, economic and financial, but above all, for the good people of the world, who do not deserve to live in fear, seeing their purchasing power decline so dramatically.

Russia itself, with the exception of the conquest of a few territories, however rich, has lost the conflict strategically, ethically, and morally. Not only did it fail to change the Ukrainian regime by appointing pro-Russian forces, but it unwittingly strengthened it. Furthermore, it found itself with many previously neutral neighbors now integrated into NATO. It failed to win a war that was never declared, one that should have ended in a few days, or at most a couple of weeks, and which has been going on for many years. We all know the military, financial, and economic efforts the Russian people have made in recent years, and that they will likely have to suffer the consequences for a very long time.

But was there a way to prevent all this? If there had been logic, common sense, and mutual respect, as DirectDemocracyS advocates, and if the world were governed by our system, there would have been no conflict, because problems can be solved very simply, with dialogue and everyone's commitment.

So many deaths, so many injuries, so much destruction, and so much fear, to enrich a few people, and a few lobbies (as often happens), to the detriment of all the good people, who are not to blame for anything other than remaining immobile and suffering all these events.

With DirectDemocracyS, you have a highly effective weapon to take what should belong to you: the entire world, which must forever belong only to the good, not the bad. But everything can be achieved, even quickly, easily, and safely, with just a small financial sacrifice (annual dues, to remain incorruptible), to make us financially independent, and with a little of your free time (a few dozen minutes a day is enough, from anyone who joins us), to make our entire enormous mechanism function perfectly, and never again have to see: war, thirst, hunger, poverty, lack of medicine and medical care, lack of education and culture, lies and manipulation, injustice, and all of us live in a different, and certainly better, world. Think about it: no matter what happens, we can never do worse than those who came before us!